Best Day Tour to Luxor from Hurghada for British Travellers

05.00 am: pick up time from your hotel

06.00 am: start time from Safaga Port, and checkpoint to Luxor to all the coaches going to Luxor

07.00 am: 20-minute coffee break at a cozy lounge to use the toilet (10 L.E per person), have your breakfast, enjoy a drink then start over to Luxor with Golavita Travel Egypt.

09.30 am: Karnak temples complex, Start your Luxor trip from Hurghada with Karnak temple, the biggest temple in the world. You will guide will explain to you about ancient Egyptian civilization, and Egypt history during the New Kingdom when Luxor was the capital of Egypt. Watch the ancient Egyptian language decorating the walls and the Egyptian gods and goddesses. Meanwhile, discover how big is the Obelisk of Hatshepsut, and the columns of the Hypostyle Hall. Equally important, visit the Sacred Lake, go seven times around the great Scarab, and the Festival Hall of Thutmose III.

11.30 am Lunch: Enjoy your freshly cooked lunch at a local restaurant with the possibility of vegetarian meals.

12.15 pm: in case you like to enjoy a short Nile Cruise tour with a motorboat to see Luxor from the water, you can against charge. Also, you will pass the famous Winter Palace where Agatha Christy wrote 5 of her fiction stories.

12.50 pm: Memnon Colossi, Your first stop on Luxor's west bank will be the Colossi of Memnon once decorated the entrance of the Mortuary temple of Amenhotep III. Learn about the Myth behind the name and the mummification in ancient Egypt that took place in that temple.

13.15 pm: The Valley of the Kings is on the top of Luxor day tours attractions and one of the best things to do in Egypt. The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt during the 18th dynasty, 19th dynasty, and 20th dynasty used the place to bury their mummies. In the Kings Valley you will see that it has 63 tombs (now more) containing the funerary objects, mummies, treasures, coffins, and papyri of the Pharaohs. Because of this, the Pharaonic tomb robbers stole a lot of them in ancient and modern times. With your entrance ticket, you can visit 3 tombs and you can shoot photos inside for free. These three tombs could be 3 of the following tombs:

(KV 02) Rameses IV
Tomb of Ramses III (KV 11)
Ramses IX Tomb KV 6
Merenptah tomb (KV 8)
The tomb of Tausert and Setnakht (KV 14)

After visiting your 3 tombs and shooting some photos of the astronomical ceiling of the tombs, you will be ready for your last stop.

14.45 pm: Hatshepsut temple, enjoy your last stop at the temple of the only female who ruled Egypt as a king for about 23 years, Queen Hatshepsut. Start your Egypt travel packages walk the avenue of the Sphinxes in front of the temple and looking at the only two restored statues of Hatshepsut. Once, you are on the second terrace, discover Hathor Chapel, Punt Expedition, Anubis Chapel, and the Divine Birth story of the Queen. The last level of the temple shows the Osiris statues of Hatshepsut and the holy of holies inside the mountain. The entrance is decorated with two figures of Hatshepsut with the White Crown and Red Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. At the end of your tour, it is time to start your way back to your hotel in Hurghada with a short break to toilet, drink, or stretch your legs for a while, you can also book with us Cairo tours from Hurghada and it's one of our amazing day tours.